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I disliked how misleading/false (from my perspective) that line is for as long as I can remember. Because before I heard of the 'be yourself', I believed in something along the lines of 'always strive to become better than yourself, you are your best competitor". And 'be yourself' told exactly the opposite.

While I'm not very verbal about my disagreement with common proverbs or quotes, but I cringe whenever I see/hear someone say that to someone else. xD

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"Does he look like a bitch?" (almost everyone's favorite)

Well, to be sure, it's an easy way out and you don't have to spend hours comforting the person when he/she comes to you seeking opinion on their feelings or action...

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A politically ignorant person who embraces only hedonism as the main philosophical doctrine.

Well, to be sure, it's an easy way out and you don't have to spend hours comforting the person when he/she comes to you seeking opinion on their feelings or action...

Yes it is. I usually give up and not comfort at all.

I'm one of those really nit picky people that consider that lying and do not differentiate 'white lies'. And I don't like to lie. I'm not a good friend when it comes to seeking comfort. I'm more of a practical friend who either has a solution or doesn't.

My mother comforts me by laughing at me. She doesn't say this but the general tone is like "PFFFT what the hell is that, grow some balls" like when I had a $3000 debt from a tuition payment error and got put on hold and had the collections agency after me. Because i grew up with that kind of advice, it really comforts me because she makes things seem like not a big deal.

I'm one of those really nit picky people that consider that lying and do not differentiate 'white lies'. And I don't like to lie. I'm not a good friend when it comes to seeking comfort. I'm more of a practical friend who either has a solution or doesn't.

My mother comforts me by laughing at me. She doesn't say this but the general tone is like "PFFFT what the hell is that, grow some balls" like when I had a $3000 debt from a tuition payment error and got put on hold and had the collections agency after me. Because i grew up with that kind of advice, it really comforts me because she makes things seem like not a big deal.

I have been told that I suck at comforting because I usually tell the situation as it is rather than downgrading the problem.

Comfort by laughing? Haha, I actually agree with such approach, because I use it on myself. When shit happens, I laugh at myself and says, "Oh hell, you fail epicly". In life, we will definitely experience problems, and if we don't grow some balls and laugh at it, it's going to be tough. I would rather be my own clown than having someone else do it for me.

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A politically ignorant person who embraces only hedonism as the main philosophical doctrine.

Don't mince your words like pink slime, because you need to douse it with ammonia [to kill whatever thing that is deemed harmful in it], and it is going to STINK Like urine. If you consider LFTB to be edible, please consume it yourself; don't force that disgusting ersatz other people's throat.

Me getting annoyed at some puritan who kept nitpicking at the "offensive words" in my friend's sentences on Skype and keep suggesting "alternative vocabulary". As I thought, he doesn't know what LFTB is.

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When three puppygirls named after pastries are on top of each other, it is called Eclair a'la menthe et Biscotti aux fraises avec beaucoup de Ricotta sur le dessus.
Most of all, you have to be disciplined and you have to save, even if you hate our current financial system. Because if you don't save, then you're guaranteed to end up with nothing.

Orientals must be kept in their native East till the fall of the white race. Sooner or later a great Japanese war will take place...The more numerous Chinese are a menace of the still more distant future.
- H.P Lovecraft, 1919.